Slow Spatial Reader – Chronicles of Radical Affection

Slow Spatial Reader – Chronicles of Radical Affection

Release: July 2021
Volume: 352 pages
Format: 16 × 21 cm
Price: 25.00 

Slow Spatial Reader offers a collection of essays about ‘Slow’ approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy from around the world.
The book’s contributors are from twenty-four countries on five continents. Each one brings distinct philosophical and disciplinary approaches—from ‘spatial’ fields like architecture, sculpture, and installation, but also performative, somatic and/or dramaturgical practices. Moreover they are exploring how we think about and engage with space at a range of scales, tempos, and durations.

The essays chronicle projects and processes that amplify tangible and intangible qualities of spatial experience: reaching into the cracks of the body, probing the fuzzy borders of atmospheres, and extending out across both geographical and epistemological coordinates.

The term ‘radical affection’ in the book’s title was coined to unite those diverse approaches in a call for tender acts of individual and collective imagination. New forms of caring, connection, and resilience might emerge through those. Like its predecessor, Slow Reader (Valiz 2016), this new publication is intended to spur meaningful dialogue between disciplines and cultures.It is the aim to inspire not only a different velocity of engaging the world but also critical shifts in consciousness that only Slow thinking and practice can provoke.

Author
Publisher

Slow Research Lab, Valiz

Designer

Zuzana Kostelanská

Release

July 2021

Bookbinding

Paperback

Volume

352 pages

Format in cm (w × h × d)

16 × 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 978-94-92095-97-8

Contributer

Contributors: Lara Almarcegui, Marijke Annema, Martina Buzzi, Nicolas Buzzi, Sol Camacho, Cave_bureau (Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi), Renske Maria van Dam, Chiara Dorbolò, Cocky Eek, Anna Maria Fink, David Habets, Ian Hanesworth, Maria Hassabi, Beate Hølmebakk, Saba Innab, Kū Kahakalau, Bronwyn Lace, Daniel Lie, Pia Lindman, Ruth Little, Megumi Matsubara, Ash McAskill, Kate Morales, Salima Naji, Ligia Nobre, Alessandra Pomarico, Maria Popova, Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) Jane Rendell, Angela Sakrison, Cristine Takuá, Li Tavor, Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx, Françoise Vergès, Sara Wookey

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Slow Spatial Reader – Chronicles of Radical Affection